Identifier: odysseyofphilipp00will (find matches)
Title: The Odyssey of the Philippine Commission
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Daniel Roderick, 1871-1931
Subjects: United States. Philippine Commission (1900-1916) Philippines
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
hickens, and a coupleof dogs. Mr. Moses spread his blankets on a smallraised platform to one side, while Mr. Worcesteroccupied a tiny projection under the eaves. Mr.Scherer, used as he is to such experiences, fled thescene, saying he would find some other house or sleepin the coffee bushes. We would have followed suit,but it was raining and we did not know the place orpeople. While we were retiring, and for some timethereafter, our host, his wife, her friends, and hisfriends, were having a private dinner party at ourfeet. It was a situation to conjure with, Mr.Moses, from his platform, hummed an old couplet,which ran — How little did my mother think, Tliat time she cradled me;What lands I was to travel in, What sights I was to see. I kicked one of the dogs, while the Doctor com-plained that the people were sitting on his feet.After many false starts the visitors finally left, andwe were alone with the home product. Comparativequiet reigned until the rooster woke up, and I have (268)
Text Appearing After Image:
c o o o 3Ou o THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION never heard a bird which could crow louder or longerthan he could. It was an experience with which oneremains satisfied with once enduring. June i6, igoi.Today we made Kabayan, some twenty miles. Ithas been a series of ascents and descents, hard onmen and horses. We crossed two ranges, walking agood part of the way. This morning my saddleslipped, the girth getting under the horses withers,causing a pyrotechnic display of heels, unpleasant ona narrow trail. The scenery continues somethingsuperb. At one point today wc followed the crestof a divide overlooking two valleys shut in by highmountains. Below us were winding streams andrice fields turning golden for the harvest. With aclear sky above we could see the dark clouds andhear the thunder roll amid the peaks to left andright; then the storm swooped down upon us, andwe took our daily baptism of rain. Shortly beforereaching Kabayan we saw what might have been abit of old Japan. Before us stretche

Note About Images